The table counted the years starting from the presumed birth of Christ, rather than the accession of the emperor Diocletian on 20 November 284, or as stated by Dionysius: " sed magis elegimus ab incarnatione Domini nostri Jesu Christi annorum tempora praenotare ..." It is assumed Dionysius Exiguus intended either 1 AD or 1 BC to be the year of Christ's birth ( a " year zero " does not exist in this calendar ).

The Senate had become accustomed to ruling without an emperor between the departure of Tiberius for Capri in AD 26 and Caligula's accession.

A half-hearted attempt was made to complete the temple during Augustus ' reign as the first Roman emperor, but it was not until the accession of Hadrian in the 2nd century AD that the project was finally completed around 638 years after it had begun.

She did so, but complained that this Pagan writer said nothing about ecclesiastical affairs and stopped with the accession of the emperor Valens in 364 ; consequently Paul interwove extracts from the Scriptures, from the ecclesiastical historians and from other sources with Eutropius, and added six books, thus bringing the history down to 553.

Then in 840, with Louis ’ death and the accession of Lothair as emperor, war again erupted between the sons of Louis.

Upon the accession of Claudius as emperor in 41, Vespasian was appointed legate of Legio II Augusta, stationed in Germania, thanks to the influence of the Imperial freedman Narcissus.

The last quarter of the century saw the end of the period of peace and prosperity known as the Pax Romana at the death of the emperor Marcus Aurelius, last of the " Five Good Emperors ", and the accession of his ineffective and deranged son Commodus.

At the very time of Leo's accession Louis XII of France, in alliance with Venice, was making a determined effort to regain the duchy of Milan, and Leo, after fruitless endeavours to maintain peace, joined the league of Mechlin, on 5 April 1513, with the emperor Maximilian I, Ferdinand II of Aragon, and Henry VIII of England.

* The official Japanese system numbers years from the accession of the current emperor, regarding the calendar year during which the accession occurred as the first year.

* A similar system existed in China before 1912, being based on the accession year of the emperor ( 1911 was thus the fourth year of the Xuantong period ).

On the assassination of Caligula in 41, Agrippa's advice helped to secure Claudius ' accession as emperor, which he made a show of being in the interest of the senate.

Michael's accession whetted the appetite of his former comrade-in-arms Thomas the Slav, who set himself up as rival emperor in Anatolia and successfully transferred his forces into Thrace, effectively besieging the capital in December 821.

However, her unpopularity among the Romans compelled Titus to dismiss Berenice upon his accession as emperor in 79.

Upon the accession of Titus as emperor in 79, she returned to Rome, but was quickly dismissed amidst a number of popular measures of Titus to restore his reputation with the populace.

Constantine firmly controlled his father's army and territories, and Galerius could pretend that his accession was part of the regular succession in the tetrarchy, but neither was the case with Maxentius: he would be the fifth emperor, and he had only few troops at his command.

The elder son of emperor Carus, he was appointed Caesar and co-emperor of the western portion of the empire upon his father's accession.

On the accession of Peter III ( 1762 ) the situation of Ivan seemed about to improve, for the new emperor visited and sympathised with his plight ; but Peter himself lost power a few weeks later.

At the time of their accession, the Huns were bargaining with Byzantine emperor Theodosius II's envoys over the return of several renegade tribes who had taken refuge within the Byzantine Empire.

On the accession of Peter II of Russia Osterman was appointed governor to the young emperor, and on his death ( 1730 ) he refused to participate in the attempt of Demetrius Galitzne and the Dolgorukovs to convert Russia into a limited constitutional monarchy.

" one who prepares against "), which emphasizes the emperor's military supremacy and is the source of the English word emperor ; caesar, which was originally a name but it came to be used for the designated heir ( as Nobilissimus Caesar, " Most Noble Caesar ") and was retained upon accession.

The accession to the purple on 20 November 284, of Diocletian, the lower-class, Greek-speaking Dalmatian commander of Carus's and Numerian's household cavalry ( protectores domestici ), marked a major departure from traditional Roman constitutional theory regarding the emperor, who was nominally first among equals ; Diocletian introduced oriental despotism into the imperial dignity.

Before the accession of the Emperor Anastasius I, Euphemius had made him sign a profession of faith ; eventually he fell foul of the emperor.

200 ) until the accession of her son Emperor Ōjin ( legendary 15th emperor, r. 270-310 ).

When Austria became a member of the European Union, the Austrian variety of the German language — limited to 23 agricultural terms — was " protected " in Protocol No 10, regarding the use of specific Austrian terms of the German language in the framework of the European Union, which forms part of the Austrian EU accession treaty.

His denunciation of the royal dynasty of Israel, and his emphatic insistence on the worship of Yahweh and Yahweh alone, illustrated by the contest between Yahweh and Baal on Mount Carmel, as told in 1 Kings 18, form the keynote to a period which culminated in the accession of Jehu, an event in which Elijah's chosen disciple Elisha was the leading figure.

The wars which attended his accession both in Hungary and in Persia terminated unfavourably for the empire, and its prestige received its first check in the Treaty of Zsitvatorok, signed in 1606, whereby the annual tribute paid by Austria was abolished.

Only a few weeks after his accession the Ottoman Empire sustained a crushing defeat at the Battle of Slankamen from the Austrians under Margrave Louis William of Baden and was driven from Hungary.

Soon after the accession of Muhammad Shah Qajar to the throne of his grandfather, Fath Ali Shah, the Imam Hasan Ali Shah was appointed governor of Kerman in 1835.

Edmund ( reigned 1016 ) was an elder half-brother of King Edward the Confessor, and Edmund's son Edward was in Hungary with King Andrew I, having left England as an infant after his father's death and the accession of Cnut as King of England.

His participation in the attempted usurpation of John Komnenos the Fat in 1200 had caused him to be imprisoned until the accession of Isaac II Angelos, who was restored to the throne after having been deposed and imprisoned by his brother Alexios III, and his son Alexios IV Angelos, who were placed on the throne by the intervention of the Fourth Crusade in July 1203.

Amalric I of Jerusalem ( also Amaury or Aimery ) ( 1136 – 11 July 1174 ) was King of Jerusalem 1163 – 1174, and Count of Jaffa and Ascalon before his accession.

There was some resistance to his accession as count, which was suppressed with the help of his mother Blanche of Castile who was acting as regent in the absence of Louis IX.

War was, however, forced on him and less than a year after his accession the complete defeat of the Turks at Battle of Kozluja led to the humiliating Treaty of Küçük Kaynarca on July 21, 1774.

Ownership of Balmoral, along with Sandringham House in Norfolk, was inherited by Edward VIII on his accession in 1936.

It was not until Henry's death in 1547 and the accession of Edward VI that revision could proceed faster.

The accession of Charles I ( 1625 – 1649 ) brought about a complete change in the religious scene in that the new king used his supremacy over the established, state Church " to promote his own idiosyncratic style of sacramental Kingship " which was " a very weird aberration from the first hundred years of the early reformed Church of England ".

European accession was delayed by controversies over the extradition of army generals to the ICTY, including the runaway Ante Gotovina.

In 2011, the accession agreement was concluded, giving Croatia the all-clear to join, with a projected accession date of 1 July 2013.

By the time EU accession negotiations were completed on 30 June 2010, Croatian legislation was fully harmonised with the Community acquis.

Cyprus's legislation was aligned with EU norms in the period leading up to EU accession in 2004.

A son, first named Tiberius Claudius Germanicus, and later known as Britannicus, was born just after Claudius ' accession.

The required number of 50 instruments of ratification / accession / approval / acceptance by countries was reached in May 2003.

In 360 this was reversed through the Metropolitan's court influence and Cyril suffered another year's exile from Jerusalem until the Emperor Julian's accession allowed him to return.

St. Cyril was able to return again at the accession of Emperor Gratian after which he remained undisturbed until his death in 386.